Our Champions League rivals have had a very mixed few days. Tuesday’s opponents Borussia Dortmund were thrashed 5-1 on Sunday by Stuttgart. That’s a painful one for last season’s Champions League finalists, who face Bochum on Friday.
Last night Atalanta lost at home to Como, giving the visitors their first win of the season, showing the Europa League holders are far from invincible. We face them in Italy in four weeks.
Leipzig gave St Pauli their only point of the season in a 0-0 draw on Sunday. St Pauli had only 30% possession but interestingly had the lion’s share of chances. There is a method of getting to Leipzig.
The roof fell in on Brugge, who lost 2-4 at home to Gent on Sunday. As with Leipzig, Brugge enjoyed 70% possession, they even had an incredible 80% of chances in the game, but lost four goals to a Gent side who only had three shots on target (assisted by an own goal).
Gent are above Brugge in the table, so that split between chances and goals is more likely to be a strategic determination by Gent than a random result. As with Leipzig, there is a way to get at Brugge.
Dinamo Zagreb lost 4-1 at bottom club Slaven Belupo on Saturday. Slaven remain bottom of the table despite that win.
Young Boys got their first win in seven league games this season at bottom side Winterthur. which sees them rise to 9th. We don’t face the Swiss champions until 22 January, lots can change between now and then.
Our only opponents who seem to be motoring with any consistency are Aston Villa, who beat Wolves on Saturday, won at Wycombe in the League Cup last night and sit a point behind Manchester City in the EPL.
This could be the best Champions League draw Celtic get in our lifetimes. I fully expect a near-impossible playoff opponent next season, so let’s make the most of this one.
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No podium chasing on this fair Wednesday morn.
Get in .
Not sure St Johnstone would be the right move for Broonie just now, the guy at Ayr is throwing a lot of money at them …..
EK Bhoy 10.34 previous blog.
Check
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/other-peoples-money/comment-page-2/#comment-3948121
that clarifies how UEFA get details of player squad wages.
!!BADA BING!!
Hope he stays and sees them promoted.
I don’t see a single bad result having much effect on Dortmund. They are an experienced European team who 4 months ago were in the Champions League Final. We will have our work cut out to get anything in Dortmund
Zagreb is a game we need to attack from the first whistle
What larks Paul67
– what larks
I wandered lonely as a cloud…..
I don’t buy into the “they’re not playing well therefore…….”
Dortmund, Atalanta and Liepzig will be significantly better than any side we could meet in the champions league play off next season.
The next three games in europe will be extremely tough.
I’d have got a podium had it not been for those pesky ads.
Greenpinata
I answered at end of last blog mate.hh
HH
AULDHEID on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2024 12:09 PM
EK Bhoy 10.34 previous blog.
Check
https://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/other-peoples-money/comment-page-2/#comment-3948121
that clarifies how UEFA get details of player squad wages.
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Cheers had a quick scan through the main document and the annex , written such that any competent accountant/ lawyer would be hard pushed to screw up. Does give a little scope for the Philadelphia lawyers to interpret some aspects in bizarre ways or behalf in a crazy way , E.g. colluding with other clubs for inflated transfers etc , I guess Man City have been caught out by the English version due to absurd sponsorship revenue, or as old Cloughie would say , cheating.
HH
P67
“This could be the best Champions League draw Celtic get in our lifetimes. I fully expect a near-impossible playoff opponent next season, so let’s make the most of this one.”
“could be” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Time will tell.
It looks good on paper but Dortmund, Atalanta and Liepzig are top tier teams for me, just below Man City and Real.
The fact that our opponents are getting mixed results in their leagues perhaps just shows they are actually challenged each week by a better level of opponent which is a positive for them. It doesn’t make them easier teams but hopefully if these opposition teams can cause them upsets, so can Celtic.
Unrelated but has anyone here seen Liam McGrandles live (out with Celtic Park!). He is playing Dunfermline soon and my eldest seems keen – just curious what kind of set he does, his own stuff, covers, Celtic tunes etc?
QB
Aipple on 25th September 2024 12:12 pm
!!BADA BING!!
Hope he stays and sees them promoted.
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No! Not another plastic pitch…..
bigrailroadblues@12.27
Ye’d be even lonelier if ye wiz walking as a MacLeod….
McPhail Bhoy re: plastic Ayr
I was not aware it was plastic. I retract my last statement.
Auldheid…..
Will all clubs be required to:
Present their financial information in the same manner?
Follow the same reporting period?
I ask this as I recall that the old rangers were not on the Stock Exchange, and didn’t have to present information according to Stock Exchange requirements. As I recall, they put a value on their stadium, based on its Replacement Value, thereby increasing the ‘value’ of their assets.
Also, I think it was Everton who recently changed the date for their financial year.
Such ‘flexibility’ can be – and indeed was – used to provide both clubs with financial results that suited them.
Cheers,
Weeron
Greenpinata – From previous thread agreed.
I was not coming from a bigoted point if view but Lenny’s safety.
I am the biggest advocate of live and get live unless of course you are on our board then I reserve the right to criticise if deserved.
In my line of work I can give 2 examples of my colleague well 1 of my supervisors advising me did you see his tattoos, king Billy etc I said so what (by the way my Supervisor is a Rangers fan) we could be letting the best worker overslept by us blah, blah, blah turns out before we offered the boy the job he got another with some other company.
Another with same supervisor was putting up a bit of a smoothie because an interviewee had tats all over hands, arms and neck, I spoke to supervisors 3 years later the guy is 1 of our better employee’s.
So discrimination of any type is abhorrent .
I meant if it was I after what Lenny had went through I would not even consider it.
If that is wrong then so be it.
D. :)
Aipple….
Is this not the last season in which plastic pitches are allowed in the SPFL?
Weeron
Best worker ever slip by us I meant.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomashalrobsonkanu_this-is-what-football-is-truly-about-a-ugcPost-7243190018444333057-yrka?utm_source=combined_share_message&utm_medium=android_app
Heartwarming stuff from Liverpool
Absolute bloody rabble the lot of ye.
DAVID66
I wouldn’t tar an entire club due to one idiotic supporter who attacked Lenny.
I saw a Celtic supporter run from the jungle and attack Gordon Strachan of Aberdeen. Didn’t deter the wee man from accepting the Celtic job years later.
Liverpool £9 a ticket for under 13s in the champions league.
Celtic plc equivalent £32.
More than just a club. Aye right.
Bada
Truly brilliant.
Enjoying the fsr chat,informative as per.
However still find it incredible we do not implement it at our own sfa level.regardless what Neil Doncaster thinks.
HH
THE RETURN OF WEERON
Artificial pitches are banned from the Scottish Premiership commencing season 2026/27.
Foundation mean club has provided food to an estimated 19000 individuals.
Celtic plc left 14000 seats unsold for last Sunday.
I wonder how difficult it would be to pass on this wasted perishable asset to people who might love to come back to Celtic park on a match day but cannot afford to.
Mean is meal.
A real frudian slip there when thinking of the plc.
SAINT STIVS
You’d be surprised at the number of season ticket seats left empty on a match day by supporters who travel to Parkhead and stay in the pub or the Supporters Association throughout the entire game.
I know guys who regularly leave the stadium at half-time and go to the pub/club to watch the second half on TV.
I have known supporters who, apart from Glasgow derbies, travel on supporters buses and never enter the stadium, preferring to spend the time bevvying with a like-minded pal or two. One guy even admitted that it’s his only chance to enjoy a few pints without his wife as he has to go home immediately the bus arrives back in town.
In fact, my son has played football for decades and tells me there was one guy who turned up every week for a whole season with boots in kit bag and went to the nearest pub until after the game when he joined the players for their customary two or three post-match beers. All to fool his missus into thinking he was playing every week.
You’d be amazed at the number of henpecked men who pretend to go to the game just to get a few drinks in peace.
Tom@2:39
“I know guys who regularly leave the stadium at half-time and go to the pub/club to watch the second half on TV.”
Yip especially if celtic are winning at HT, mental 🙄
PRESTONPANS BHOYS
Big Gavin, whom you met in Kitty’s, does it regularly.
Tom
Hearts don’t need much hiding,having sat in their stand it was as bad,if not worse than ibrox.maybe Hearts have more than their fair share of bigots.
It’s not tarring Hearts but the open displays of hidden sectarianism that courses thro Scotland
HH
I know people who do the same. The game is just the alibi for the days drinking.
Waste of a season card.
A
SS- I think you would struggle get another 14k in on Sunday, seemed much more there…….
Meanwhile, Hibs still have no idea how many tickets, if any,they are getting for a game on Sunday, ridiculous situation, not that long ago the powers that be were hounding Dundee, and given a fine….